Remembering Slavery

Name: Remembering Slavery
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781620970287
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African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

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When Remembering Slavery was first published 15 years ago, this startling (and bestselling) first-person account of slavery was heralded as 'powerful and intense' (Atlanta Journal Constitution) and 'invaluable' (Chicago Tribune). Drawing from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with... Read More

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Remembering Slavery

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When it was first published fifteen years ago, this startling and bestselling first-person history of slavery was heralded as "powerful and intense" (Atlanta Journal Constitution) and "invaluable" (Chicago Tribune). Drawing from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Projec

Description

When Remembering Slavery was first published 15 years ago, this startling (and bestselling) first-person account of slavery was heralded as 'powerful and intense' (Atlanta Journal Constitution) and 'invaluable' (Chicago Tribune).

Drawing from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project, this astonishing collection makes available the only known recordings of people who lived through the enormity of slavery.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781620970287

Publisher: The New Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The New Press

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Contributors:

Edited by Ira Berlin
Edited by Steven F. Miller
Edited by Marc Favreau

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 416

Collections

History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Marc Favreau is the editorial director of The New Press. He is the editor of A People's History of World War II: The World's Most Destructive Conflict, as Told by the People Who Lived Through It. He lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

(with Leslie M. Harris). His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, among many other awards.

Steven F. Miller is a co-editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and a co-editor (with Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland) of Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War.